For decades, Modec has collaborated across industries to offer versatile portable actuators.
By understanding market demands, Modec has pioneered a monitoring solution aligned with Industry 4.0 and IoT technologies. The key feature of this system includes seamless integration, allowing a smart sensor to connect to Modec actuators without requiring any modifications to the existing installation.
This ensures a hassle-free setup, providing an easy upgrade to the user’s system. Additionally, data management is simplified by transmitting critical information such as torque, speed, and rotation data through Bluetooth to a secure mobile and web application, enabling effortless analysis and real-time tracking.
Modec’s system also offers advanced team organisation capabilities, allowing users to assign different roles with varying access levels to optimise operational efficiency.
This feature ensures that only authorised personnel can access specific data and functions, streamlining workflow. Valve insights are also available on-the-go, enabling users to input and access important valve data anytime and anywhere, providing flexibility and ensuring informed decision-making in real time.
Modec Connect offers two distinct modes for measuring valve performance. In Free Mode, it provides real-time data on torque, speed, and revolutions, offering instant feedback on valve operation.
Guided Mode, on the other hand, helps users conduct a comparative analysis of valve conditions over time by providing step-by-step instructions for more detailed insights. This combination of modes ensures both immediate and long-term monitoring of valve performance.
For advanced reporting, Modec Connect enables the export of professional PDF reports, allowing users to share valuable insights and maintain thorough operation records. The system also simplifies performance analysis with visualised curves, making it easier to track and identify trends.
The LTN67 Sensor within Modec Connect measures torque and speed, sending real-time data directly to the mobile app via Bluetooth. Compatible with all Modec actuators, this lightweight sensor enhances the efficiency of monitoring manual valve networks, streamlining maintenance and operational decision-making.
While industries continue to digitise their automatic valves and processes to streamline data collection, improve maintenance, and reduce costs, manual valves often remain unmonitored with little to no data.
Yet, despite their large numbers and involvement in critical processes, they are frequently overlooked. So why focus only on monitoring automatic valves and not manual ones?
Modec outlines four reasons why manual valves should also be monitored:
Reduction of unexpected shutdowns: by monitoring valve performance and condition, maintenance and repairs can be carried out and planned according to actual needs, rather than by assumption or routine schedules. This avoids unnecessary parts replacements and interventions, reduces costs, and improves overall process control, ensuring smooth and efficient equipment operation without unexpected disruptions.
Extended equipment lifespan: through non-intrusive installations, valves can be regularly monitored without disrupting operations, allowing early detection of the first signs of wear. By addressing issues before they worsen, equipment can be maintained more efficiently, extending its lifespan and avoiding costly breakdowns or premature replacements.
Track your work: by storing valve operation data, it becomes easier to share information with your team, facilitating performance verification and problem identification. This not only speeds up troubleshooting but also improves team collaboration and makes training new staff more effective.
Preparing for tomorrow’s innovations: by collecting data today, you lay the groundwork for future tools and technologies, such as AI, which is already entering the industrial sector. The more data you collect now, the more accurate and insightful future analyses will be, enabling smarter decision-making and predictive maintenance.
Field Machine Tools is the Australian distributor partner of Modec Pneumatic Motors and Portable Valve Actuators.
For more information, contact sales@fmt.com.au
